HealthIT Answers September 16, 2019
2017 was the first reporting year for MACRA/MIPS (Quality Payment Program). Only recently has it been possible to begin the deeper analysis of the data generated out of that year. We are now able to go to the CMS website, Physician Compare, to see some of the publicly reported data. However, the single most import data, the final MIPS score, is buried in data bases. That data can be accessed but not too many folks are going to examine gigantic spreadsheets to get at that data. The spreadsheet for individual MIPS eligible clinicians has over 400,000 rows. You might want to add a little RAM to your computer to play with that data.
The MACRA/MIPS program is complex, much more...